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ransomedbyfire
Explorer | Level 3
1 year ago

How to view a spreadsheet on Android *without* changes being saved?

Dropbox keeps saving my changes as a separate version when I never asked it to. I am the only person who uses this spreadsheet, and I only intentionally edit on one laptop. I do sometimes view it on ...
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ransomedbyfire
Explorer | Level 3
1 year ago

Since I'm not really satisfied with any of the answers here, I've gone ahead and written code in my spreadsheet that will allow it to find conflicted copies of itself, save them as the original version, and then delete them.

Thanks for trying though!

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